It was a little embarrassing...
Embarrassing Mormon Moment
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_zeezrom
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Embarrassing Mormon Moment
I'm teaching a 2-day workshop for an engineering consulting firm. We are sitting in a conference room of 20 engineers, around a huge table. There is an overhead projector and my laptop screen is being displayed on the wall for everyone to see. I went to insert an image into my program when up pops thumbnails of all my awesome religious imagery! Here is a sampling of some of the images they all saw:
It was a little embarrassing...
It was a little embarrassing...
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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_Sethbag
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Re: Embarrassing Mormon Moment
Tony Stark needs to be suing Jesus for patent infringement for the chest-implanted nuclear power plant. Or the other way around.
Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
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_zeezrom
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Re: Embarrassing Mormon Moment
Sethbag wrote:Tony Stark needs to be suing Jesus for patent infringement for the chest-implanted nuclear power plant. Or the other way around.
That is (by far) my favorite Jesus image.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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_quaker
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Re: Embarrassing Mormon Moment
My favourite rendition of Jesus.
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_zeezrom
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quaker wrote:
My favourite rendition of Jesus.
That is really nice, quaker.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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_Morley
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Count your blessings, Zee.
My inadvertent religious images would have been more along the lines of:
I guess everyone sees God a little differently.
My inadvertent religious images would have been more along the lines of:
I guess everyone sees God a little differently.
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_zeezrom
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Morley, I love your outlook on God, etc.
Things could have been different. What if they had seen all my Dior, Margiela, McQueen, and Miu Miu images?
Things could have been different. What if they had seen all my Dior, Margiela, McQueen, and Miu Miu images?
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
The Holy Sacrament.
The Holy Sacrament.
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_just me
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Morley, who is that?
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
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_SteelHead
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Godiva, no?
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality.
~Bill Hamblin
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_Morley
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just me wrote:Morley, who is that?
Steel's right. It's the Godiva statue in Coventry.